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The man with courage is a majority.

Andrew Young

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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
Diplomat
Film Producer
Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Human Rights Activist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Andrew Jackson Young
Majority
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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
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Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
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What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
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My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.
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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
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If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
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